A bias studied since 1983 explains why almost no one thinks they are vulnerable to the lies they see in others
In 1983, American sociologist W. Phillips Davison gave a name to a mechanism any careful observer already sensed, the near-universal conviction that deceptive messages affect others more than oneself. Four decades later, research on political disinformation confirms the same pattern, and a recent survey on the 2026 French municipal elections documents it with unusual precision, … CONTINUE READING →